Kendall Grove looks at his record, and he really doesn’t care that much.

Doesn’t mean he likes 17-13 staring back at him. But he borrows from the old fighter cliche of not fighting for a record, not fighting for money – but fighting because he’s a fighter.

Except with Grove, you tend to believe him. Why else would he get back in the cage three weeks after his most recent fight? Love of the sport seems to be at the top of his list.

“I’m just trying to fight as much as I can,” Grove recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “I love the sport, I love competing and I’ve been fortunate not having too many serious injuries in my career. I could see myself doing 50 fights. On the pace that I’m going, I’ll hit that in the next couple years. If I could fight every weekend and my body’s capable of doing it, I will.”

And Grove attributes being able to keep up with that kind of desired pace to two things.

“I stay active and I don’t drink anymore,” he said. “I’m a family man, and there’s two things I can do – watch my kids and train, and I do both of them.”

With five kids at home, ranging from a pair of newborn twins to a 7-year-old, Grove is active around the house when he’s not in a training camp. (But as often as he wants to fight, he said it’d all be impossible without his wife supporting his career and looking after the brood at home while he’s away to train and fight.)

Lately, he’s been plenty active in the sport. On June 8, he dropped a unanimous decision to Michael Materla at a KSW show in Poland. And now he turns around to fight Saturday against Danny Mitchell (12-3) at “Global Warrior Challenge: The British Invasion,” which takes place at Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo., and airs on pay-per-view.

Mitchell has a three-fight win streak, but hasn’t fought since August 2012. All three of the Brit’s current wins in his run have come by stoppage.

It’s an opponent switch for Grove on a fight card that pits Americans against fighters from the U.K. And Grove has looked into Mitchell – whose nickname is “The Cheesecake Assassin” – enough to know that the fight may hit the ground. That used to be Grove’s forte, but now he said he’s warming to the standup game much more.

“(He’s not a bad guy – pretty slick jiu-jitsu, well-rounded, Jack-of-all-trades, master of none,” Grove said. “I’m excited, though. I think he likes to strike, but as soon as you get your striking going, he’ll shoot for that single. That’s what I’ve noticed on his YouTube videos. I’ll oblige. I don’t really care. I got bit with that boxing bug, and I like standing now for some reason. I just like punching people in the face. It’s addicting. I like making people bleed – not in a bad way. It’s like a video game, like ‘Street Fighter’ every time you’d hit somebody and see their power level go down – same thing.”

Grove is just 5-4 since the UFC let him go after he went 7-6 over roughly a five-year span. He’s been stopped with a pair of submissions, but his most recent two fights were back-to-back unanimous decision losses. And the one to Materla, he said, was a rough one.

“I’m just continuing to train,” he said. “I was supposed to win my last one and got ripped off. But no use crying over spilled milk. Yeah, a three-fight losing streak … it hurts. But I don’t really fight for records. I fight to fight. Obviously, I wish I had a great record. But s–t happens, and I’m on the receiving end of that s–t. I’ve got to dig myself out of this hole, and the only way I can do that is fight and win. So I’ve got ‘The Cheesecake Assassin’ coming up, and hopefully I can shake this losing streak and start winning again.”

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